Quotes About Empowerment

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Woman is the masterpiece.

The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.

I hope more women will join us in our journey towards a more balanced political system.

Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

There's a small club of women who are willing to age.

I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.

There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

All the women in my family are extremely strong.

If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, 'power to the women.

Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.

The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.